Word: utah
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Married. Ina Fagan Whitaker Gilbert ("Ina Claire"), 46, stage & screen star, onetime wife of the late John ("Garbo") Gilbert; and William Ross Wallace Jr., 40, able San Francisco attorney; she for the third time; he for the first; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper to an Administration supporter until Franklin Roosevelt's legislative vagaries...
...stirred was Utah's ordinarily placid New Dealer Elbert Thomas that a "vision" came to him in bed. He got up at 2 a. m. to write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...
Every Senator was in the Chamber except New Mexico's Chavez† and two (Utah's Thomas, New Hampshire's Bridges) who had paired their votes, so 93 votes were recorded, the biggest Senate vote in three years. Several times the lead changed as, in the hushed room, Senators in alphabetical order answered "yea" or "nay." First shock to Leader Barkley's composure came just before his own name was called. Alabama's Bankhead, brother of the Speaker and ordinarily a sure Administration vote, said...
...Probable revolts against the Administration will be led by Senators Harrison on Taxation, Smith on Farm Relief, Byrd on Reorganization, Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...